یادداشت پرستو خلیلی

                I was always fascinated with kids and how they think and how they react to different things that they hadn't felt or lived.
This is the saddest Children Book I've ever read and I shall read it again.

Conor, a 13-year-old boy, calls a monster. a yew tree. and the monster came to do what he always did.
He lives with a sick mother, an unmerciful grandmother, and friends that bully him. Practically, he lives alone.
Coner blamed himself, he wanted to punish himself, so he started to tell lies to himself.

I think we have been or we will feel the same way Coner felt. We would want to not see the truth, run from it, and even hide from it. But as the Yew Tree said, It's ok and it's not ok at the same time.
Facing the truth of our lives must be the hardest thing to do in the whole world. Because after trying so hard, after doing things and trying to be human, it's hard to face the truth. That maybe the thing you did was not what you wanted to do in the first place, or the thing you did is not going to have a future.

Failure. 
Coner faced failure, but he wanted to runaway from it and that is the reason he called the Monster.
This was Coner's Truth.